Tuesday, December 12, 2006

TailRank.com vs. Techmeme.com

I like both sites after having used them each day. But I find I keep going back to Techmeme.com more often. And it most definitely has to do with design. I like the Techmeme design. Where the page isn't too big so I don't have to keep scrolling like I do on TailRank. On techmeme, their is two screenfuls of data usually, or three, and the stories are clearly visible. The discussions around that story are usually grouped in much smaller text, but you can clearly tell what the story is. I just like that view a lot compared to TailRank. Its easier to see the difference. Perhaps I need to get used to staring at the small screenshots in TailRank.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...